The doctrine that kings derive their right to rule directly from God and are not accountable to their subjects; rebellion is the worst of political crimes.
1 Jonathan Boucher subscribed to the doctrine of the divine right of kings :
2 Versailles, the greatest tribute to the divine right of kings ever constructed.
3 Right, the rise of democracy and the loss of divine right of kings .
4 Or when it rejected democracy in favour of the divine right of kings .
5 It's just like people used to believe in the divine right of kings .
6 Napoleon Bonaparte had shattered the divine right of kings nearly forty years earlier.
7 I suspect that it is some scheme aimed at the divine right of kings .
8 The divine right of kings is a purely modern development.
9 The divine right of kings was a foregone conclusion, antagonism to which was heresy.
10 The theory of the divine right of kings was but another 'Luck of Edenhall.'
11 The divine right of the masses is about to replace the divine right of kings .
12 We refuse to recognise the divine right of kings .
13 Apparently he thought that another assault had been committed upon the divine right of kings .
14 We refuse to recognize the divine right of kings .
15 Thus arose the spiritual power of monarchs, or the " divine right of kings . "
16 The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings .
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